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February 2017 Auction Ends Thursday, February 23rd, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 2/23/2017. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #58: Benito Mussolini Autograph Letter Signed as Prime Minister and Duce of Fascism -- ''...sprinkle 'the rim of the glass with a sweet liquor'...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #76: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed 8'' x 10'' Military Photo

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #121: Abraham Lincoln Military Document Signed as President During the Civil War -- Signed With His Full Signature, ''Abraham Lincoln'' -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: $8,750

• Lot #122: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President -- Near Fine With Full, ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature

  

  Min Bid: $6,750

  Final Price: $10,210

• Lot #123: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Note Signed as President -- Lincoln Asks His Secretaries of State & War for Their Opinion

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $7,500

• Lot #137: Exceptionally Rare Harry Truman WWII Victory Proclamation Signed as President -- Gifted to White House Staff in 1945 -- in Seldom-Encountered Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #204: Continental Congress President Henry Laurens Signed Military Appointment for the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #205: George Custer Signed Envelope -- Made Out in His Hand to His Wife -- ''Mrs. G.A. Custer''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #206: Jefferson Davis Autograph Note Signed -- ''...the gratification it would give your very respectful friend...''

  

  Min Bid: $450

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #207: Confederate Vice President, Alexander Hamilton Stephens Free Frank Signature

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #208: Lot of 5 Confederate Letters From KIA Soldier, James W. Anthony of the 11th Alabama -- 1 Civil War Dated Letter -- ''...I volunteered...to fight for the rights of our lovely south...''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #209: 3rd Georgia Cavalryman During the Atlanta Campaign -- ''...our gallant boys rose up and gave them a fire and then a yell...they scattered like sheep, leaving all their dead in our possession...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #210: Civil War letter by a Charleston Dragoon, the 4th South Carolina Cavalry -- During the Overland Campaign -- ''...The Fifth Regiment lost five men, killed last night in the fight...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #211: Civil War Letter by 14th Virginia Infantryman -- ''...been down to Yankeedom...burnt a good deal of valuable lumber & captured five Yankees...They were indeed very much surprised to see our men...''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #212: Confederate Letter Lot From 1st Virginia Cavalryman -- ''...Lieutenant Zanondson gave him a pass and took one for himself...'' -- Plus a Copy of ''1st Virginia Cavalry''

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #213: 21st Virginia Infantryman -- ''...considerable activity in the Yankee camp...Let us pray that the almighty so directs the course of events...to be the last of this uncalled for and cruel war...''

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #214: 40th Virginia Infantryman Civil War Letter: ''...a spy had just passed through our camp, having crossed over at Mathias' point, on his way from Washington to report to General Holmes...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #215: Large Letter Lot by 17th IL Infantryman Mortally Wounded at Fort Donelson: ''...she has seen one by one those that she loved with a mother's warmest affection laid in the cold damp grave...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #216: Civil War Letter on the Historic Battle of Shiloh & Its Gory Aftermath -- ''...heads blown off some with a bowl through the eyes & head others with the lower part of their face blown off...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #217: Civil War Letter, Chronicling Sherman's March -- ''...our brigade...proceeded to give them a few 'pointed instructions' in skirmishing...'' & ''...passed Marietta and Atlanta...partially burned...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #218: Lot of 4 Civil War Letters From Soldiers in the 80th Illinois & Mississippi Marine Brigade -- ''...We were after some Rebs...We followed them and took a few prisoners...'' -- Plus 30+ Documents

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #219: Civil War Letter -- ''...One man was shot by the sentinel a few days ago...The ball struck the joint of his shoulder and went through his neck cutting open [his] wind pipe & gullet...''

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #220: 1863 Diary by 21st Indiana Light Artilleryman With Heavy Battle Content -- Battles of Chickamauga, Brown's Ferry & Fort Donelson -- ''...found the boys burying the dead Rebles killed...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #221: 29th Massachusetts Infantryman, WIA at Petersburg: ''...I was shot through the back of the neck July 30th in the charge when we blowed up the rebel fort...'' -- Also Battle of Bethesda Church

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #222: Colorful Letter Lot by 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Sergeant -- ''...Capt. Shepherd has a bullet in his leg now and several more of our company have old scars to avenge...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #223: Civil War Archive on Battles of Lynchburg & Cedar Creek -- ''...it was a grand but awful sight but the enemy soon began to fall back and finally broke and run and then the cavalry was after...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #224: CDV & Diary by 18 Year-Old Sergeant in the 34th Massachusetts Infantry -- Battles of Lynchburg, Piedmont & New Market -- ''...found that we killed more of the Rebs then they did of us...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #225: 37th Massachusetts Soldier Describes a Flood of Rebel Deserters Crossing Enemy Lines: ''...through the night we can hear a volley of musketry fired by the Rebel pickets...''

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: $250

• Lot #226: 3rd Massachusetts Letter -- ''...it was as hot as 2 hells here...I think they are trying to kill our regiment...our party got licked...it will always be so as long as they have such damn fools...''

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #227: Large 53 Letter Lot by Brothers in the Minute Men Regiment, 8th MA Infantry -- With Post-Baltimore Riot Content & Battle of Roanoke Island: ''...they wanted to shoot the police on the spot...''

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #228: Diary by 43 MA Infantryman -- Siege of Little Washington: ''...places where the fire...had ignited and left burning hundreds of old dead...'' & ''...a negro deck hand had his arms shot off...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #229: Letter Lot by 13th Michigan Officer, From the Battlefield of Shiloh & Stone's River -- ''...a rebel...had his thumb on the trigger, but my trusty sword brought him to the ground...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #230: Civil War Archive by Frederick Meyer, Aboard the U.S.S. Flag -- ''...several men killed then they had to surrender...15 killed, 31 wounded...fire all around as shells bust on top us...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #231: Civil War Letter With Fort Darling Battle Content -- ''...I had one man fall on me...with the back part of his head shove in by a piece of shell...loss is 60 killed wounded & missing...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #232: Civil War Captain Joseph Prime Letter From 1862 Regarding the Death of Colonel Ellsworth

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #233: Civil War Letter at Battle of Darbytown Road -- ''...before the assaulting colum got within sight of the rebs they set up a awful yell and the rebs opened a murderous fire...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #234: Letter Archive by WIA Soldier in the 114th NY Infantry: ''...a terrible battle ensued...A bullet struck me in the left leg...The rebs got whipped like the very devil...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #235: CDV & 18 Letter Lot by 1st NY Cavalryman on Battles of 2nd Winchester, White Oak Swamp & Fighting at Sharpsburg After Antietam -- ''...Bill...fell to the ground and tossed about in agony...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #236: 1st NY Dragoons Soldier Describes Battle of Yellow Tavern Where He Was WIA -- ''...that night I lay in a yard with about three hundred killed and wounded, some with their legs and arms off...''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #237: Civil War Letter Lot by a 21st New York Cavalryman -- Describing His Capture of Deserters & Disowning His Own Brother for Deserting -- ''...He has lost all claim upon me to call him brother...''

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #238: 2 Civil War Diaries by 16-Year-Old Soldier, Describing Battles of Trenton, Goldsboro Bridge, Petersburg, Ream's Station & Numerous Skirmishes -- ''...the ground was strewn with rebel dead...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #239: Fantastic Letter Lot by 80th New York Soldier Who Writes Graphically About Bull Run, Cedar Mountain, Cold Harbor & City Point Explosion -- ''...the surgeons were very busy amputating limbs...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #240: Letter Lot by 82nd New York Infantryman WIA at Gettysburg: ''...I was not killed in the last battle, but was wounded. I was shot in the right breast & the ball came out of my back...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #241: Letter Lot of Sergeant in 101st Pennsylvania Infantry on Siege of Little Washington -- ''...We killed and wounded a bout 25 of them before they could get a cross...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #242: Letter Lot by Two Civil War Soldiers -- ''...the rebel cavaliers did brave our pickets...It was about 4,000 men together and it was so still that you can hear a pin fall...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #243: Two Diaries by 17th PA Cavalry Sergeant, With Constant Battle Content -- Todd's Tavern, Spotsylvania C.H., Cold Harbor, White House, Deep Bottom Run, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek & Winchester

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #244: Civil War Letter by William H. Foss of The 1st Independent Sharpshooters -- Battle of Globe Tavern at Weldon Railroad -- ''...I do hate to see human beings shot down like wilde beast...''

  

  Min Bid: $375

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #245: Civil War Letter by 5th Vermont Infantryman KIA at Savage's Station, ''...it is pretay sickley hear and a good many dying...you have perhaps hurd of our los of men...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #246: Letter Lot by Surgeon in the 5th West Virginia Infantry on Slavery & Battle of Cross Keys -- ''...We counted 27 dead horses and in following them we saw dead men, legs, arms and feet...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #247: Dachau Concentration Camp Letter From 1943

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #248: Karl Donitz Typed Letter Signed -- Hitler's Successor in Nazi Germany

  

  Min Bid: $225

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #249: Iwo Jima Flag Raiser, Rene Gagnon 1943 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...if I am stationed somewhere outside the U.S...like Cuba, or New Zealand, or England...Let's hope I stay in the U.S....''

  

  Min Bid: $450

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #250: WWII Admiral William Halsey Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...May I add my humble word of praise + say 'Good Cheer' + 'Well Done'...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #251: General Douglas MacArthur Signed 11'' x 14'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #252: Douglas MacArthur Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo in WWII Uniform

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #253: General Douglas MacArthur 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo in Uniform

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #254: General Douglas MacArthur Typed Letter Signed -- ''...Thank you so much for your birthday greeting. I appreciate it deeply. It made my day a brighter one, indeed...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #255: ''The New York Times'' From 30 August 1939 -- ''Berlin Hopeful For Peace'' -- Two Days Before WWII

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #256: ''The New York Times'' From 6 September 1939 -- ''Germans Shell Warsaw'' & ''War Stocks Boom''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #257: Joe Rosenthal Document Signed From 1953 -- Also Signed by Comedian Ken Murray

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #258: Iwo Jima Photographer Joe Rosenthal Autograph Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #259: Albert Speer Typed Letter Signed -- Shortly After His Release From Prison

  

  Min Bid: $175

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #267: Clara Barton Letter Signed on Running the National First Aid Society at the Age of 88 -- She Writes of Supporters ''full of love, confidence and hope'' & Also ''the axe over our heads''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750